Boat wharf



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Patented May ac, 193s NETE TA'ES WALTER K. VOORHEES,

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ture, whose sections are adjustably connected together and separable to be knock-down construction, whereby "the wharf may be easily set up adjustably and suitably swaybraced, and may also be disassembled for storage, transportation or re-use.

This object I have achieved in the invention which is herein described and claimed, and which is illustrated in the accompanying drawing, wherein Fig. 1 is an end elevation of my improved boat wharf as set up and assembled, and `Fig. 2 is an enlarged detail plan fragmentally showing parts of the alined plank walk as secured and supported upon the cross-members of the standards of the wharf, and showing one ofthe top nial balls removed from a standard.

The wharf illustrated may be made of any desired width and with its elements differently shaped and connected in detail without departing from my invention.

The supporting members are the tubular standards 1 which may have at the top ornamental balls 2' with necks not shown secured in the hollows of the standards as by threading or otherwise.

The upper portion of each standard may have spaced through bolt-holes 3 in the direction of the length of the wharf, and have also in the lower portion other spaced boltholes 4 in a transverse direction relative to the wharf. The numeral 1l denotes like pairs of tubular cross members having flattened terminations 12 which are apertured to receive headed bolts 9 (see Fig. 2) secured by nuts 10 at opposite faces of the standards. The floor of the wharf is preferably made of planks 15 arranged side by side and slightly spaced, with their ends abutted with other like sets in alinement, the ends of the planks being mounl'ted upon the abutting cross member 11 and fastened thereon by means of bolts 13 and nuts 14.

I have shown in said 1 means for sway-bracing the opposite pairs of standards 1. The numeral 7 denotes rods medially i932. lserial ivo. esame.

crossed with a fastening deviceS .rigidly and removably connecting. their junctions, the ,endsofthe rods being bent over horizontally in parallel and Vpassed throughV the lower holes 4 of the standards andsecured by means 55 of nuts' 5 and 6. It will be understood that the standards receive through their upper holes 3 the aforesaid bolts 9 which fasten the pairs of cross membersY 11 to the standards.

The sway braces 7 hold the pair of stand-2.6O

ards 1 together rigidly so that no looseness will occur permitting swaying of the platform while under load or strain. It will be seen that the lower parts of the standards may be embedded in the bottom of a lake or watercourse as shown in Fig. 1, using a level to maintain them in proper position, and the platform may be adjusted in height .along the standards by changing the bolts 9 into other holes 8. Also the sway braces 7 may be likewise adjusted in position and height along the standards by changing the threaded ends thereof` mounting them in other standard holes 4, to thus suit the conditions of'service.

If desired', nuts 6 may be used on the termina- A tions of the rods 7 to lock the connections there to the standards.

By removing the bolts 9, the iioor sections may be separated from the standard seotions, each being and thus occupying little space for storage.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is:

1. A Wharf construction, comprising in combination, pairs of standards, cross-members arranged upon opposite faces of each pair of standards and having detachable end connections thereto, and flooring members between adjacent pairs of alined standards end-connected to and supported upon the adjacent cross-members. n

2. A wharf construction, comprising in combination, pairs of transversely spaced standards set in a longitudinal alinement cross-rods medially connected and having their ends removably connected to and between each pair of standards, rigid members arranged upon opposite faces of each pair of standards. bolts connecting the ends of said rigid members to said standards, and flooring .Friijcsyj, i

piled in tiers conveniently ,8

secured removably and witli abutting ends in longitudinal alinement upon said rigid members above said cross-rods.

3. A Wharf construction, comprising in combination, pairs of apertureol tubular standards set in longitudinal alinement and spaced relation, Vpairs of tubular cross members having attened and `apertured terminations contacting With opposite faces of .the standards, means for detaohably securing said flattened ends of the cross members to the standards and for adjustments therealong in the apertures thereof, floor planks placed in longitudinal alinement With ends Asecured removably to the adjacent ones of said cross members, land removable cross connections between each pair of standards beneath said Y planks and for adjustments therealong in apertures therof. In testimony whereof, I afix my signa-ture.

WALTER K. VOORHEES. 

